Posted by
timothy
on from the cd-r-handheld-ogg-player dept.
ThatKidYouDid writes "Wired.com is holding a vote for this years best
vaporware. My vote definitely goes to the oqo, although I'd still snag one if they ever materialized. What do others really wish could have happened by Xmas?"
... a RMS approved completely free operating system with nothing but GNU tools/kernel/etc.
... an actual gaming system based on linux.
... a crash proof secure windows distro.
... peace on earth
so many to choose from... so so many. I know HURD will never reach full developement (no one will dump linux to do something new), 3D in linux sucks hence why there are no games for linux, crash proof windows that is secure (MS always promises and always fails horribly, and well peace on earth and good will towards men (not so long as we got a war mongers running america...)
-- Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
What do others really wish could have happened by Xmas?
this being/. and all, I was thinking sex would be the #1 answer and might say I'm surprised it's not here.
-- Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
Gotta be Duke Nukem Forever
by
hoser
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· Score: 5, Funny
Yeah, it's made the list before, but it deserves to be on there again. We've been waiting for this game since:
- Clinton was president.
- The Spice Girls were popular.
- Princess Diana was alive.
- Tony Soprano was a twinkle in David Chase's eye.
- Yahoo was a good search engine.
- The X-Files was on, and it was worth watching.
It's been a long, long time since Duke Nukem Forever was announced. 3DRealms should get an award for most vapourous software ever.
How about the DOJ "punishment" in the MS antitrust case?
Last Year's Vaporware: Materialized
by
fo0bar
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· Score: 5, Funny
It should be noted that out of the 10 items listed by Wired for the 2001 Vaporware list, the following have materialized:
* 3G wireless networks (Although not what we were promised. I have a 3G phone from sprint, but cannot do things like video on demand) * Photoshop for OS X * Warcraft III * Duke Nukem Forever
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My vote goes to .net server.
Duke Nukem: Forever. 'nuff said.
You zap the moderators with a wand of humor! The moderators resist!
Auto-Mod-Down 1) In Soviet Russia Vaporware....... 2) Beowulf Cluster of Vaporware 3) Idea, Vaporware, ???, Profit 4) AND THIS POST!
22 years of empty promises... now *that* is a winner!
News just came today of a new Law and Order series - Law and Order: Special Friends Unit.
"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson
MS Bob XP
Recovery of the American Economy.
employment?
You win.
Sigs are bad for your health.
Never came out.. but Soviet Russia was mentioned a few too many times...
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The new feature of slashcode to cut down on duplicate stories...
Post this early, funny. Post this late, redundant... better click submit now...
I'm still holding my breath on flying cars...
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so many to choose from ... so so many. I know HURD will never reach full developement (no one will dump linux to do something new), 3D in linux sucks hence why there are no games for linux, crash proof windows that is secure (MS always promises and always fails horribly, and well peace on earth and good will towards men (not so long as we got a war mongers running america ...)
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
What do others really wish could have happened by Xmas?
/. and all, I was thinking sex would be the #1 answer and might say I'm surprised it's not here.
this being
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
Yeah, it's made the list before, but it deserves to be on there again. We've been waiting for this game since:
- Clinton was president.
- The Spice Girls were popular.
- Princess Diana was alive.
- Tony Soprano was a twinkle in David Chase's eye.
- Yahoo was a good search engine.
- The X-Files was on, and it was worth watching.
It's been a long, long time since Duke Nukem Forever was announced. 3DRealms should get an award for most vapourous software ever.
hoser: Slashdot reader since 1987.
Lots of guys are still waiting for this.
> Remember Zeosync made that huge fuss claiming 100:1 compression on random data?
I bet that they probably achieved an even better compression ratio than 100:1 on their venture capital.
"There are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare." - Blair Houghton
How about the DOJ "punishment" in the MS antitrust case?
It should be noted that out of the 10 items listed by Wired for the 2001 Vaporware list, the following have materialized:
* 3G wireless networks (Although not what we were promised. I have a 3G phone from sprint, but cannot do things like video on demand)
* Photoshop for OS X
* Warcraft III
* Duke Nukem Forever
Err, wait, never mind on the last one.
Haha, how's this for hype? They have "awards" for TF2 posted already!
CS2? Sigh we don't need a second generation of CS tards.